Waist and skirt supporter.



PATENTED'MAY 14, 1907.

E. J. MoK'INNEY. WAIST AND SKIRT SUPPORTER.

' APPLICATION FILED 0OT.6, 1906.

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EVA J. MCKINNEY, OF I-IALLSVILLE, ILLINOIS.

WAIST AND SKIRT SUPPORTER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed October 6,1906. Serial No. 337,757.

To all whone it Who?! concern.-

Be it known that I, EVA J. MCKINNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Halls ville, in the county of Dewitt and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Waist and Skirt Supporters, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to skirt supporters designed chiefly for preventing ladies and misses skirts from sagging, and the upward creeping of the waist.

In accordance with this invention, the back of ladies waists at the waist line and the skirt bands are provided with washable tape pieces containing eyelets or buttonholes,

and a waist band, or waist band with shoulder tapes, is provided with headed studs secured thereto in aunique manner and adapt ed to pass through the eyelets of the bands of the skirts and shirt waist so as to hold said parts in adjusted and proper position. Also said washable tape pieces containing said eyelets or buttonholes may be attached at the waist line of mens and boys shirt waists, and so adjusted as to be supported by shoulder tapes and waist band with said headed studs properly arranged upon said waist band. Said eyelets or buttonholes may be properly arranged in a tape to be attached to the inner side of mens and boys pants waist band.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction and the means for effecting the result, reference is to be had. to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1. is a detail perspective view showing the application of the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of a tape constituting a waist band for a skirt or shirt waist showing the manner of providing the eyelets or buttonholes therein.

The waist band 1 may be of tape or other textile or pliable strip and is adapted to be secured about the waist in any convenient manner. At one or more points in the length of the waist band is located a stud 2, the

same having a head and a backplate and having the general appearance of a collar button of well known formation. Usually, aseries of three such studs are provided and arranged so as to appear, one at the back of the wearer at a central point and the other two at the sides thereof.

The waist band 5 of the shirt waist and skirts is provided with one or more eyelets or buttonholes 7, the same being reinforced by pieces of tape or cloth 8 secured thereto preferably by means of the stitching, reinforcing and finishing the eyelets or buttonholes; The reinforcing pieces 8 also serve to provide tabs or grips to be pulled upon when it may be required to disconnect one or more eyelets or buttonholes from the corresponding headed stud.

The eyelets being in a double washable tape, which tape is inserted through an incision cut as for a buttonhole the same size as the eyelet in the back of all waists at the waistline, and in the bands of all skirts. The eyelets or buttonholes being adjustable to all parts by means of drawing one side of the tape through the incision therein and stitching said eyelet or buttonhole tape around the outer edge firmly to material in which the incision is made. Said eyelets being so adjusted to correspond with the position of the stud upon which it is to be supported.

Having thus described. the invention, what is claimed. as new is:

In combination with material provided with a buttonhole, a reinforcing piece attached to the material by means of, the stitching finishing said buttonhole and having its end portions loose to provide tabs or pull pieces.

In testimony whereof I afIiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EVA J. MCKINNEY.

Witnesses F. F. LEMON, LAURA L. Fox. 

